Repair Door Handle Holes

Door lock doesn t latch properly when a door latch doesn t click into position it usually means the latch and the strike plate are out of alignment.

Repair door handle holes.

Both auto body filler such as bondo and a hardener catalyst should be available at a large hardware store. Repairs range from making minor latch adjustments to repositioning the door. If screws are already exposed proceed to next step. To depress the detent use the end of a metal paper clip or the point of an awl inserting it into the hole and pressing the detent down while twisting and removing the door handle shaft off the spindle.

If the knob or rose plate itself is screwed on with threading on the hardware there will be no screws to expose. Mix more as needed. Start out with about 1 teaspoon 4 9 ml of the auto body filler and half as much catalyst. At first glance it appeared that this handle would fit in the old holes.

Take the handle off of the door. Expose the set screws on the door handle. Remove the old storm door handle by unscrewing the two screws that hold the two halves together.